No Faith In System For Voting Or Candidates

November 7, 2006|Larry Bronson Davie

In the 14 months since I moved to South Florida from a Northern state, I have diligently studied the various candidates and issues on which we are voting today in order to make intelligent, informed decisions.

Unfortunately, the various candidates have chosen to campaign with increasingly puerile ad hominem ads instead of addressing the issues facing the people of Florida. Therefore, voting for one candidate over another will be very much like voting for Tweedledum over Tweedledee, and it won't much matter who is elected since it is impossible to tell one faceless candidate from another.

As for the various proposals on which we will be asked to vote, they are so poorly written (didn't the people who drafted these proposals study written English in school?) and their objectives are so vague that it is impossible to trust that they mean anything at all unless their purpose is to put money in the pockets of politicians.

As for the mechanics of voting, despite what I have written above, I shall vote but with very little confidence that my votes will be counted the way I cast them, and no confidence at all that my vote will even be counted since in many areas there will be no adequate safeguards or even paper trails in case of voting irregularities. Did Florida learn nothing from the fiasco of the 2000 presidential election?

Florida should be ashamed of itself that it can't field candidates with more integrity, proposals which are completely clear in their objectives, and guarantees that there will not be voting frauds of various kinds.